The story of the rise of the Zsolnays from Pécs in Hungary has strong parallels with the life of the family of the somewhat younger Emile Gallé (1846-1904) in Lorraine. Like Gallé, Vilmos was the son of a wealthy merchant. Like Charles Gallé, his father Miklós Zsolnay (1800-1880) was given the opportunity to buy up […]
LOVE IS IN THE AIR is the title of a special chapter within our art auction in the spring of 2024. It features selected objects from a private collection, all of which deal with the theme of love and also express this in a visual way. As shown in the ‘The Love Ring’ from 1969, […]
The Internationale Sammlerzeitung wrote in its 22nd issue of 1928 that the collection of Th. Stoperan, which was auctioned at Paul Graupe on November 2nd and 3rd of the same year, found an “exceedingly receptive audience”. It went on to say that all the works on offer were auctioned off at “very good prices”, even […]
“What noble nuances Gallé elicits from the heart of the oak, what harmonious contrast of tones when a leaf contrasts with the color of the trunk.” With these poetic words, Marcel Proust, a friend of the craftsman Emile Gallé (1846-1904) at the time, praised the sensitivity and taste with which the artist designed his furniture. […]
The dates of the glass artist’s life are in the dark. All that is known is that the son of French parents was employed as artistic director at the Faiencerie de Longwy in the early 1870s, where he worked on the enamel cloisonné technique. In 1875, he moved to Bordeaux to join Jules Vieillard & […]
From a private Art Nouveau collection come the glasses presented on the following pages from the Glashütte Ferdinand von Poschinger, which the art lover collected over a period of several decades. Among them are some lustrated vases with finely combed thread decoration and peacock feather decoration, designed by the artist Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth, which […]
The Art Toys manufactured by Medicom Toy Incorporated since 1996 are not only produced in high quality, they are also limited in numbers and therefore popular collectibles. Probably the best known and most popular creations of the Japanese manufacturer are the Be@rbricks that take their name from the distinctive silhouette in the shape of a […]
It is only rarely that one can admire such a wide range of Emile Gallé’s works in one auction. The 40 or so vases created during Gallé’s lifetime stem from three German and Austrian private collections. The stylistic and technical diversity of Gallé’s oeuvre is documented almost in its entirety and his world of motifs […]
The young Léonard Agathon van Weydeveldt, born in Lille, Belgium, in 1841, received his training at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Lille and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris […]
The year 2022 marks two special anniversaries in connection with the poster collection on offer here. Fifty years ago – in 1972 – the Games of the XX Olympic Games (1972) took place in Munich, and the authoritative graphic designer of the sporting event, Otl Aicher, would have turned 100 this year. Otto, called Otl, […]
